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BRERETON,  ROBERT 
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SOME  THOUGHTS  ON 
PERSONALITY 

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Individualism  in  life  on  Earth 


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ROBERT  MATTLAND 


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Human  individualism  is  observable  in  two  forms  in  material 
life—the  psychic  individual  mentality  and  the  physical  or  objective 
personality.  Through  this  duality  or  composite  feature  of  the 
materialized  human  being  we  are  apt  to  form  very  erroneous 
judgment  from  following  the  line  of  physical  evidence  only. 

Physically  we  see  and  recognize  the  personality  of  an  indivisible 
unity.  Psychologically  we  may— and  often  can— observe  two  and 
more  individualized  minds  with  will-force,  and  consequent  actions, 
in  the  indivisible  materialized  unity. 

This  indicates  the  periodical  indwelling  of  two  or  more  human 
souls,  who  operate  the  same  brain-machine  and  the  nervous  sys- 
tem, as  their  control  thereof  is  obtained. 

The  primary  individualized  soul,  through  its  habitual  and  well- 
known  mentality,  may,  in  most  cases,  be  able  to  control  its  own 
brain  and  nervous  system,  barring  accidental  injury,  throughout 
material  life,  and  so  establish  its  uniform  personality.  If  a  soul, 
strohger  in  mind  and  will-force  than  the  primary  soul,  should 
enter  the  material  body  and  gain  control  of  the  brain  and  nervous 
system,  a  dual  mentality,  in  periodic  form,  may  be  apparent. 

Formerly  mesmerism,  today  hypnotism,  represents  the  animal 
magnetism  and  will-force  of  one  living  person  upon  the  mentality 
of  others.  Why  should  not  the  same  be  exercised  by  spirits  pos- 
sessed of  the  same  controlling  power  ? 


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Alexandre  Dumas  had  this  in  mind  in  writing  his  "Memoirs  of 
a  Physician" ;  in  which  his  Lorenza  Feliciani  presents  a  primary 
and  a  secondary  individiiaHty  during  the  hypnotic  trance-periods. 

The  Christian  Church  has  mainly  nurtured  the  belief  in,  so- 
called,  "demoniacal  possession" ;  as  described  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment. 

The  Old  Testament  is  remarkably  free  from  incidents  of  such 
possession.  The  case  of  Saul,  in  which  David's  hypnotistic  power 
was  exercised,  is  a  singular  instance,     (i  Sam.  xvl-i6,  23.) 

In  Greek  mytholog)'  the  term  demon  was  applied  to  both  good 
and  evil  spirits :  good  and  evil  genius  and  guardian.  In  Plato's 
philosophy  a  demon  was  not  an  evil  spirit.  The  Greek  poet, 
Hesiod,  who  lived  about  735  years  B.  C,  wrote  as  follows : 

"Soon  was  a  world  of  holy  demons  made 
Aerial  spirits,  by  great  Jove  designed 
To  be  on  earth  the  guardians  of  mankind." 

The  Eumenides  of  the  Greeks  and  the  Furiae  (Furies)  of  the 
Romans  were  the  avenging  spirits  for  human  breaches  of  piety, 
hospitality  and  other  humane  virtues.  The  idea  of  the  ancients 
seems  to  have  been  that  the  occult  controlling  power  and  assault 
of  the  spirits  was  from  without  the  human  body,  that  is,  in  the 
form  of  obsession,  and  not  from  within  as  in  that  of  possession. 

Belief  in  secondary  and  multiple  personality  was,  for  the  first 
time  in  human  history,  forcibly  displayed  in  the  time  of  Christ. 

Through  His  hypnotic  influence  seven,  so-called,  evil  spirits 
quitted  the  body  of  the  Magdalene. 

The  late  F.  W.  H.  Myers,  who  had  gone  very  deeply  into  occult 
and  psychological  investigations,  thought  that  human  personality 
is  not  an  indivisible  unity,  but  was  capable  of  being  split  into  seg- 
ments of  unity — the  same  idea  as  that  of  trinity  in  unity — each  of 
which  forms  a  distinct  personality. 

This  view  seems  based  more  upon  the  physical  conception  of  the 
human  unity  than  upon  the  truer  spiritual  one. 

If  we  view  the  corporeal  body  as  simply  a  material  dwelling 
place  or  tabernacle  for  the  human  soul  in  earth  life,  and  consider 


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the  soul  as  a  quasi  aerial  form,  there  is  less  difficulty  in  conceiving 
the  idea  of  the  indwelling  of  multiple  spirits  therein,  which  could 
operate,  from  time  to  time,  the  same  brain-machine  and  nervous 
system  to  suit  their  respective  mentality,  and  to  display  their  per- 
sonality. Bacteriolog>^  teaches  the  multiformity  of  life  in  animal 
and  vegetable  nature ;  not  one  is  free  from  some  form  of  parasitic 
possession,  which  exhibits  its  physical  influence  and  action  in  re- 
gard to  health  and  disease.  In  like  manner  may  the  mental  and 
nervous  systems  be  aflFected  by  spirit-intrusions. 

If  there  be  any  force  in  this  reasoning,  we  should  hasten  to 
adopt  a  more  scientific  and  more  humane  treatment  of  the  insane 
and  of  the  victims  of  temporary  dual  personality. 

Woodstock,  Oregon,  May,  1906. 


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